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What is the proof to Fermat's last theorem?

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British mathematician Andrew Wiles published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in May of 1995, 358 years after the conjecture was first proposed. The proof itself is over 150 pages long and took him seven years to create. As you might imagine, it is not reproducible here, but it and a great many supporting articles are readily available online.

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